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Historical records seem to indicate that a shroud bearing an image of a crucified man existed in the small town of Lirey around the years 1353 to 1357 in the possession of a French Knight, Geoffroi de Charny, who died at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.However the correspondence of this shroud in Lirey with the shroud in Turin, and its origin has been debated by scholars and lay authors, with statements of forgery attributed to artists born a century apart.Reddish-brown stains are found on the cloth, showing various wounds that, according to proponents, correlate with the yellowish image, the pathophysiology of crucifixion, and the Biblical description of the death of Jesus.The details of the image on the shroud are not easily seen with the naked eye, but they can be more clearly revealed through photography.Prior to 1390 there are some similar images such as the Pray Codex.However, what is claimed by some to be the image of a shroud on the Pray Codex has crosses on one side, an interlocking step pyramid pattern on the other, and no image of Jesus.This site stores nothing other than an automatically generated session ID in the cookie; no other information is captured.In general, only the information that you provide, or the choices you make while visiting a web site, can be stored in a cookie.

The shroud was damaged in a fire in 1532 in the chapel in Chambery, France.) is a length of linen cloth bearing the image of a man who is alleged to be Jesus of Nazareth.The cloth itself is believed by some to be the burial shroud he was wrapped in when he was buried after crucifixion although three radiocarbon dating tests in 1988 dated a sample of the cloth to the Middle Ages.The cloth is woven in a three-to-one herringbone twill composed of flax fibrils.Its most distinctive characteristic is the faint, brownish image of a front and back view of a naked man with his hands folded across his groin.